Jeremiah 9:19

Jeremiah 9:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
• New International Version (NIV)The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’ ”
• English Standard Version (ESV)For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
• New King James Version (NKJV)For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’ ”

Context of Jeremiah 9:19

17This is what the Lord of Armies says: Consider this: Call for the women who cry at funerals. Send for those who are the most skilled. 18They should come quickly and cry for us. Our eyes will run with tears. Our eyelids will flow with water. The sound of crying is heard from Zion. “We’re ruined! We’re very ashamed. We must leave our land because our homes have been torn down.” 20Listen to the Lord’s word, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs. 21Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.

Jeremiah 9:19 word by word

כִּ֣י ק֥וֹל נְהִ֛י נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִצִּיּ֖וֹן אֵ֣יךְ שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּ בֹּ֤שְׁנֽוּ מְאֹד֙ כִּֽי־עָזַ֣בְנוּ אָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י הִשְׁלִ֖יכוּ מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For a voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
• of wailingנְהִיnehîy · wailingH5092
• is heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• out of Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
• How are we spoiledשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
• we are greatlyמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
• confoundedבּוֹשׁbûsh · be ashamedH954
• because we have forsakenעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
• the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• because our dwellingsמִשְׁכָּןmishkân · tabernacleH4908
• outשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993

Cross-references for Jeremiah 9:19

• Jeremiah 4:31I hear a woman in labor. I hear the woman cry with anguish as she gives birth to her first child. My people Zion are gasping for breath. They are stretching out their hands, saying, “How horrible it is for us! We’re defenseless in the presence of murderers!”
• Ezekiel 7:16Those who survive will escape to the mountains. They will moan like doves in the valleys. They will moan because of their sins.
• Micah 1:8I will mourn and cry because of this. I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will cry like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
• Jeremiah 2:14“Are the people of Israel slaves? Were they born into slavery? Why, then, have they become someone’s property?
• Jeremiah 4:13The enemy comes up like clouds. His chariots are like a raging wind. His horses are faster than eagles. How horrible it will be for us! We will be destroyed!
• Deuteronomy 28:29You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.
• Lamentations 5:2“The land we inherited has been turned over to strangers. Our homes have been turned over to foreigners.
• Micah 2:4When that day comes, people will make fun of you. They will sing this sad song about you: “We are completely ruined. The Lord gives our people’s possessions ⌞to others⌟. He takes them from us. He divides our fields among our captors.”
• Leviticus 18:25The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
• Leviticus 20:22“If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.
• Lamentations 4:15‘Get away! You’re unclean,’ people yelled at them. ‘Get away! Get away! Don’t touch anyone.’ When they fled and wandered around, the people of the nations said, ‘They can’t stay here any longer.’
• Micah 2:10Get up, and go away! This is not a place to rest! It will be destroyed, completely destroyed, because it offends me.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 9:19

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah 6:3). So that none can … - Or, “They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they “are fled, they are gone.” Jeremiah 9:11 Dragons - Rather…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-22Verses 12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calamity, but not their sin, which is the cause of it. Let the doors be shut ever so fast, death steals upon us. It enters the palaces of princes and great men, though stately, strongly built, and guarded. Nor are those more safe that are abroad; death cuts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-19The mourners began their work right away. They mourned those who had died and grieved for Jerusalem, which faced destruction. They joined the people of Jerusalem who had lost their homes and had to flee as refugees.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. The cry of "the mourning women." spoiled--laid waste. dwellings cast us out--fulfilling Le 18:28; 20:22. Calvin translates, "The enemy have cast down our habitations."Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 9:19

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• War
• Zion

In the dictionaries

• Adulterer
• Arrow
• Desolate
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• Teach
• Wait
• Covenant, the New
• Jeremiah (2)
• Woman

Commentaries on Jeremiah 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings